Test Pilot Schools is something that catches our attention here at ASAP Semi since these school’s order plenty of parts for teaching purposes. Here at asap semi we provide the best price and the quickest lead time to keep programs like these going. Recently, QinetiQ a British multinational defence technology company signed a deal with Airbus to provide four H125 helicopters for their Test Pilot Program that manages alongside with the UK’s Ministry of Defense. This deal was worth about 15 million Euro, that will be invested in a 3-axis autopilot, traffic awareness system, and dedicated communications equipment. These things are critical parts for a successful flight test engineer training. Not only will this deal include these upgrades but also aircraft modifications and a plan that will help deliver full availability for 10 years. Hopefully by 2019 these new upgraded advanced aircrafts will be released.
The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) welcomed the European Union (EU)’s acceptance of Commercial Air Transport (CAT) using Single-Engine Turbine aero planes at night or in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (SET-IMC) in Europe. Here at ASAP Semi we deal with many international customers. Having knowledge of projects going on around the world are great for us so that we can stock our inventory to accommodate orders that might be placed. We are very knowledgeable of which parts go on specific airplanes and if not we have services to inform us.
It has been reported that Bombardier Aerospace has entered an agreement with the Island Air, a Hawaiian island airline. The agreement will be a transfer of components to be able to supply them with a great deal of support towards their Q400 aircraft fleet. This exchanging of components has been named the Smart Parts programme.
On February 16 2017, there was an article posted on Intelligent Aerospace by Courtney E Howard talking about how Molex is introducing an impact zX2 backplane connection in order to satisfy the needs of high speed data. This Molex connector will allow users to have the ability to upgrade their line cards in order to meet data rates without having to do major overhauls to the already complicated infrastructure.
Pratt & Whitney, a division of UTC (United Technologies Corp.) has announced they have obtained joint-type certification for the Airbus 321neo from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Airbus A321neo is powered by Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower Geared Turbofan engine and marks a significant milestone for the A320neo program and the entire PurePower engine family as a whole.
Eurowings is continuing its move to get away from their past as a regional airline. They are retiring the last Bombardier CRJ-900 jet. The move comes as Eurowings unifies its fleet around the Airbus A320.
Another move taken towards backing the F-137 engine with new overhaul and repairing capabilities, which was a part of workload in joint operations with Rolls Royce for the first time.
On February 17 2017, there was an article posted on Intelligent Aerospace that talks about how Ball Aerospace uses Suomi NPP (National Polar Orbiting Partnership) satellite in order to provide weather data. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp was able to do this by winning a NASA contract that has a 5 year length that will support the operations for the NPP satellite.
One new technology that has been a great to help customers or people interested an actual figure is the 3D printer. These printers can make an actual model of anything you can imagine, many people use these to show a mini version of what is going to be made. The creators are continuing to find ways to making the printers quicker on the printing process.
Defense and Space are one of the best aerospace distributors and manufactures in the industry. They are always figuring out was to diversify themselves from the competitor and that is what always them to be at the top of the market. Recently, they contracted Neptec Design Group and are beginning to design a radar laser that’s gives an extra-terrestrial imaging. They are going to install these in the pilot, which will bring the landing navigation system to another level. There have been some prototypes that have been started already and things are going as planned. Not only will this laser going to help the navigation system, but this new Lidar technology will help guide autonomous mobile platforms for terrestrial.